Information theory based design of phase-change memories

2010 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, ITA 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 119-125

  Franceschini, Michele ^a   Lastras Montano L A ^a   Karidis, John P ^a   Jagmohan, Ashish ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL STRUCTURE; DETERMINISTIC BEHAVIOR; MEMORY CELL; MEMORY TECHNOLOGY; MULTIPLE BITS; NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES; PROGRAMMABLE RESISTORS; STORAGE CAPACITY;

COMPUTER CRIME; INFORMATION THEORY; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 77952686435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITA.2010.5454135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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